Congresswoman claims the school should have terminated all four superintendents months before.
The college confirmed this week that three of the four Columbia University officials who were allegedly mocking Jews and students had resigned.
Former supervisors Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick, and Cristen Kromm just left their work, according to a statement from a university director, Samantha Slater, to the Columbia Spectator.
Following the university’s decision to put them on leave and therefore “permanently removed” them from their management roles in July as a result of the unmasked word change, they resigned.
A plea signed by more than 2, 000 students and students even called for their pregnancies.
But, Columbia College Dean Josef Sorett, who also was involved in the text information meetings, remains employed.
Responding to the media Thursday, U. S. Rep. Virginia Foxx said Columbia may have fired all four supervisors times before. Foxx chair the House Education Committee.
The North Carolina Republican said in a press release that” these executives had a responsibility to ensure Jewish individuals are able to grow carefully on Columbia’s school, and they failed badly, showing hatred for the Jewish community and engaging in racist tropes.”
By allowing Sorett to keep his position, Foxx said the school is sending “mixed signs”.
According to the Columbia Spectator, Foxx’s commission has also requested more information from Columbia as part of an ongoing investigation into college hatred.
The commission set a deadline of August 1 for the University to send focus records for its investigation into on-campus hatred, and the three defections came on the same day. In response to Columbia’s repeated failure to produce records in a timely manner, Foxx threatened to summons the documents if the University failed to meet the deadline, escalating the legislative investigation that has lasted for months.
The requested materials referenced in Foxx’s Aug. 1 text includes contacts by “priority caretakers of documents”, like Shafik, members of the board of trustees, and other senior management, records of director meetings, and details on undergraduate and university disciplinary proceedings.
In a July message to the college, university President Minouche Shafik described the officials ‘ texts as “antithetical” to Columbia’s principles.
According to Shafik,” This event revealed behavior and sentiments that were dangerously resonant with antisemitic tropes that were both disrespectful and disturbing.” These sentiments, whether they were intended or not, show a lack of sincerity about the issues and experiences of members of our Jewish group.
Additionally, Shafik added that in the fall, school leaders will develop a “vigorous” hatred coaching program for faculty and staff.
The four deans were seen making mocking and critical remarks about an hatred section at a Reunion Weekend function titled” Jewish Life on Campus,” according to the party texts released by the House committee and the Washington Free Beacon reports.
In one of the text exchanges, the deans accused Jewish leaders of being “privilege]d ]”.
In another, Chang-Kim referred mockingly to a male speaker, presumably campus Hillel Director Brian Cohen, as “our hero”, and Sorett responded,” Lmao”.
In a letter to the campus on July 8, Sorett apologized, blaming the text exchange as” contrary to the values of the University.”
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IMAGE: Columbia Jewish Alumni Association
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